Development of creativity education and evaluation methods

1. 通过访问、访谈、文献调查等方法对美国和欧洲的包括创造性教育和国际工作能力教育在内的工程教育项目及其评价方法进行了调查，结果表明，日本在培养具有国际工作能力的创造性工程师、教育评价（包括教育的认证或质量保证）方面落后于美国和欧洲。美国、瑞典和日本大学的学生组成的国际团队与业界人士合作，利用电子邮件和传真开发出了一种基于项目的国际学习（PBL）。结果表明，这种PBL教学方式对提高学生的学习动机、英语交流能力、创造力和国际工作能力都有显著的效果。1998年11月23日至24日，在大阪大学举行了“工程创新教育与国际工作能力”国际研讨会，发表了美国6篇、挪威2篇、瑞典2篇、日本8篇论文。这是就这种教育和评价交换资料的一个很好的机会。研究了其他新的教育和评价方法，为建立日本工程教育认证体系做出了贡献。

1. Survey of educational programs of engineering including education of creativity and international working ability and their evaluation methods in U.S.A. and Europe carried out through visiting, interviews and literature survey revealed that Japan lags behind U.S.A. and Europe in terms of education of creative engineers who can work internationally, and evaluation of education including accreditation or quality assurance of education.2. An international Project-based Learning (PBL) was tried, where international teams consisting of students of U.S.A., Sweden and Japanese Universities have worked together with industry people and developed prototypes using e-mail and fax. It was found that this kind of PBL is very effective to enhance the learning incentive of students, communication ability with English, creativity and international working ability.3. International workshop on " Education of Creativity and International working Ability in Engineering " was held from November 23 to 24, 1998 at Osaka University and 6 papers from U.S.A., 2 from Norway, 2 from Sweden and 8 from Japan were presented. It was a very good opportunity to exchange information on such education and evaluation.4. Other new education and evaluation methods were surveyed and contributed to establish the accreditation system of engineering education in Japan.